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In the past few years, Director’s Cuts have become all the rage. The precedent was set when Zack Snyder’s Justice League got the green light, giving the project a second chance at fame. Now, every movie inevitably gets looped into a similar conversation, such as David Ayer’s Suicide Squad—just don’t ask Black Adam’s Dwayne Johnson. Those prospects of a longer cut aren’t just relevant to DC movies. Marvel’s most recent outing, Thor: Love and Thunder, has started to become a part of that conversation....

Marvel Studios is officially running with its 2022 release schedule, having kicked off with Moon Knight ahead of May’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. As fans are well aware, the next theatrical outing set to debut is the MCU’s 35th project, July’s Thor: Love and Thunder. However, you might not know it when looking at Thor 4’s lacking promotional tour. In the post-pandemic era, studios’ promotional plans for theatrical releases have changed drastically, particularly in regard to when trailers debut in relation to movies’ big-screen premieres....

Think fast, home gardeners. How would you handle this scenario? When you prune dead portions of stems, do you bury them in a compost pile with other lawn and garden debris or put them in lawn bags to be hauled away? If you’re like most gardeners, you likely do the latter. And you’d be wrong. That’s because females of a host of native bees like the small native carpenter bee that lives in eastern North America, Ceratina calcarata, hollow out dead areas of pithy stems and turn the canes into long tubes in which they lay their eggs....

With only a few weeks until the iconic Star Wars series returns, the first footage for the third installment of The Mandalorian finally surfaced online.March 1 is a day to be remembered as the global phenomenon of a series, The Mandalorian, is finally coming back after a year’s hiatus.Of course, the time that Din Djarin and Grogu were brief, with the controversial decision to wrap up that plotline taking place in the spin-off The Book of Boba Fett....

Thinking about space today, one wonders- what is the carbon footprint of the space program? At first glance, not that bad; one source says 28 Tons of CO2 per launch. Other aspects are worse, like the 23 tons of particulates from the ammonium perchlorate and aluminum solid rocket boosters, and the 13 tons of hydrochloric acid. Others say that the liquid fuel rocket is the cleanest thing going, burning liquid hydrogen as fuel and just producing water vapour....

Have you ever looked at a new recipe that called for onions and wondered what kind you should use? Or, have you wondered if one type of onion could be substituted for another without significantly altering the end result of a dish? If you know just a little bit about different types of onions and what their flavor profiles are, you should be able to choose the right onion, or substitute one for another, without having to run to Google for help....

The giant panda’s graphic pattern has stumped biologists for years … now they have an answer. Mother Nature is nothing if not clever, especially as evidenced in the beautiful ways that organisms evolve. Take the zebra and its stripes. Why does a zebra have stripes? As it turns out, the stripes help deter biting flies like horseflies and tsetse flies. Genius! Most often, animals and their colors or patterns make sense – there’s not much mystery behind why an Arctic fox is white....

Over the past few years, the world of clean technology has seen a major influx of environmental sensor technologies. From ones that you can make yourself to those that are inspired by nature, the field has included many interesting takes on a technology that is proving to be more and more important, but the most significant trend in environmental sensors has been in personal, portable devices that measure air and water quality from our pockets or wrists....

Being stuck at home for an extended period of time is the best possible scenario for accomplishing certain long-overdue tasks, such as decluttering and organizing your house. Take advantage of this time to go through surplus belongings and create the tidy, functional space that you’ve always dreamed of having, but never felt like you had the time to achieve. On his blog Becoming Minimalist, minimalist expert Joshua Becker offers some approaches to decluttering that can keep you motivated and hold you accountable....

Filled with mystery and intrigue, the ancient pyramids of Egypt have inspired modern-day knock-offs erected from glass and steel in lieu of the traditional quarried stone. Geometric similarities aside, you’ll be hard-pressed nowadays to find a pyramid that’s primary use is as a very large tomb. (The term is used here to refer to monumental, pyramid-shaped structures influenced by the Great Pyramids of Egypt. However, modest, Egyptian Revival-style mausoleums can be found in numerous older cemeteries....

On November 11, the MCU is set to expand once more with the debut of Namor the Sub-Mariner and his underwater world of Talocan in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Played by Tenoch Huerta, Marvel Studios’ take on Namor is different from that of the comics - and DC’s Aquaman - in that he’s not the ruler of Atlantis. Instead, the live-action version of the Sub-Mariner rules the kingdom of Talocan which was inspired by Mayan culture and created exclusively for Black Panther 2....

During WandaVision, fans were shocked to see the inclusion of Evan Peters’ Quicksilver, which at the time was believed to be the first appearance of a Mutant in the MCU. Obviously, that didn’t work out quite as expected as Peters ended up playing Ralph Bohner, a Westview citizen who was magically controlled by Agatha Harkness, but it’s clear what Marvel wanted fans to be thinking. ADVERTISEMENT Now, Patrick Stewart has been revealed to be reprising his role as X-Men leader Charles Xavier in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’ Illuminati....

It has been a while, but the MCU is about to make a big splash as Marvel Studios releases its first theatrical venture of 2022. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness has been a long time coming, with fan expectations through the roof for this Multiversal sequel. The film will center around Benedict Cumberbatch’s Stephen Strange as he traverses different realities alongside Elizabeth Olsen’s Wanda Maximoff and Xochitl Gomez’s America Chavez....

New Funko merchandise reveals an updated design for Captain Carter (Hayley Atwell), seemingly in time for What If…?’s second season.While delayed from its original release date, the second season of the MCU’s first animated series is going to happen, with storylines like a 1602-inspired episode (based on the Marvel 1602 comic by Neil Gaiman and Andy Kubert) already confirmed.Marketing for What If…? Season 2 season hasn’t officially kicked off, although it’ll surely highlight Hayley Atwell’s Captain Carter after her starring role in Season 1 and live-action debut in last year’s Multiverse of Madness....

The final Marvel Studios series to hit Disney+ in 2021 was Hawkeye. The show saw the introduction of Hailee Steinfeld’s Kate Bishop as she teamed up with Jeremy Renner’s Clint Barton to help clean up his Ronin mess post-Avengers: Endgame. In the end, they were successful—at least, mostly. The last fans saw of the two of them was a happy and calm moment, one that saw Bishop get the mantle of Hawkeye....

Michael B. Jordan made a surprise return as Erik Killmonger in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, and following his comeback, one of the movie’s writers explained how it happened.Rumors had teased Jordan’s appearance in Black Panther 2 for the better part of a year, even though the iconic MCU villain met his end in the original Black Panther from 2018. And while he only had one big scene in the Phase 4 sequel, his impact was as profound as any character in the movie....

Fans are only weeks away from a game that seemed like it might never actually make it: LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga. Despite countless delays, the time has almost come for gamers to once again jump into a bricked-out version of the iconic galaxy far, far away. The project is enormous in scale, with the story spanning the entirety of Episodes I-IX. Each episode will also introduce semi-open world areas on the various iconic planets that make their appearances throughout The Skywalker Saga....

LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is a matter of weeks away, and fans cannot wait. TT Games’ latest is their biggest game yet, serving as both a celebration of the galaxy far, far away and LEGO games in general. LEGO Star Wars started this era all the way back in 2005, so it only seems fitting that The Skywalker Saga ushers fans into the next generation of brick-based adventures. One of the biggest draws to the TT LEGO games has been the expansive rosters found within them....

Sophia Di Martino helped introduce the MCU fandom to Sylvie in Loki on Disney+, although it’s not quite the same Sylvie from the pages of Marvel Comics.At the tail end of Loki’s second episode on Disney+, fans were introduced to Di Martino’s female Loki Variant, who was on the run from the Time Variance Authority. But looking at her power set combined with her personality, fans saw kind of a combination between Lady Loki and another iconic Marvel character in the Enchantress....

The release date for Blade has been a huge mystery for fans, with the only clue from Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige being that it wasn’t a Phase Four film. Previously, it was assumed that Blade would, at the very least, release before The Marvels. However, more information soon pointed to this being the case. In February, Marvel Studios brought on writer Stacy Osei-Kuffour to pen the script for Mahershala Ali’s Blade, who previously wrote for HBO’s Watchmen....